The new touch screen Macbook will be called Macbook Studio with a Surface Laptop Studio style with 4K 18"-inch screen, which has the same pixel density like the Macbook Pro.
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Big yawn as that sounds maximally oxymoronic. I have one (2020!) 2-in-1 Chromebook with that functionality... used the touch screen a few times (mostly, accidentally).
The form factor is the key. Apple won't release a touch screen Macbook without a twist, because it has makes no sense, as you said so. It has to be a device with a new form factor, and Surface Laptop Studio is a good solution.
18-inch with 3:2 4K (3840x2560) is exactly the same pixel density as rhe new Macbook Pros have. It can be smaller and lighter (less than 3 kg) than the 17-inch Macbook was.
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I have that Surface for work. It’s a terrible form factor. It converts into the world’s heaviest tablet, with an unoptimized OS and poor battery life. Of the 20 or so people in my team, no one uses it in any other set up than traditional laptop.
I can imagine that Windows (un)optimized for touch screen is a deal breaker, but 2 kg means heavy by now?
Why are people obessed with a macbook that has a touch screen?
How different will that be from an iPad? Why would apple give consumers even more reasons not to buy an iPad?
How different will that be from an iPad? Why would apple give consumers even more reasons not to buy an iPad?
…macOS I guess?
I am not interested either. I used to have a touch MacBook, i.e. my hackintoshed Yoga C930, with the fold-to-form-super-heavy-tablet hinge. I haven’t really found any reasons to use that touchscreen. It was a very good PDF reader, though (I installed an app rotating the screen).
Perhaps, but with Apple making iPadOS more like macOS and the apps run on both platforms. I don’t see any advantage a touch screen Mac would offer
There’s no downside to touchscreen functionality except the added cost, right? It wouldn’t surprise me if MacBooks all have touch screens within five years. Not saying they will, just saying that the feature doesn’t take anything from you.
My son had two touchscreen laptops; they both broke. You could flip the screen 180 degrees to make it a tablet but doing so didn’t disable the keyboard, so whenever you held the thing of course you’d press all sorts of keys. To me, this was a shockingly dumb feature.
But for me, I’d love to have MacOS on my iPad. And at this point… yeah, I could care less about the iPad apps and all that, if I could just run MacOS I’d be very happy.
Added cost, probably higher chance of issues/failure and extremely limited functionality for the vast majority of consumers.
Owning a quite snappy i7 16 GB 2-in-1 Chromebook with touchscreen (that cost ~$1600 retail... I paid ~$150 from an IT liquidator) all I can say is that the juice is not worth the squeeze especially at full price!
Simialrly, an S25 Ultra phone is my daily driver. I've used the S-Pen ~5 times to sign an electronic agreement/contract and otherwise do not find it to be something that I could no do without.
Really? You don’t need a touchscreen on your phone? Okay…
I do not need a PEN to touch the screen. Having touchscren capability on a computer display is 99.8% worthless for me and hordes of others. If Apple wants to charge extra for those that do, go ahead just not for the rest of us
My touchscreen Hackintosh disabled the keyboard when I turned it into a tablet. I didn't know I did such a good job.
It still wasn't extremely useful...